Army's high-tech Stryker Brigade

"Nowhere is it said that women cannot interpret the law
"Nowhere is it said that women cannot interpret the law."
--Amina Wadud, author of Qu'ran and Woman: Rereading the Sacred Text From a Woman's Perspective

To veil or not to veil is hardly the question. The fate of women's rights throughout the Islamic world today hinges on matters of far greater substance, from reforms of family and penal codes to new understandings of Islamic law and teaching. In these best and worst of times for Muslim women, it is perhaps not surprising that every promising bit of news seems to come with a disturbing counterpoint.

Muslim women around the world see their future in democracy--and in Islam:

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David Gergen on toughing it out in Iraq
TOUGHING IT OUT IN IRAQ (Editorial)

"Unless we bring calm there soon--in, say, three to six months--we will be forced to make exceedingly painful choices."
--David Gergen, Editor at large

Back home, the clock is also ticking. Several recent trips to the Midwest revealed a growing number of Americans asking, "What in the world have we gotten ourselves into, and how do we get out?" The unity we enjoyed after September 11 has shattered. Recent polls show that as many as 47 percent of Americans want to pull out most U.S. troops within the next year. The administration is working feverishly to patch up security by increasing intelligence, training more Iraqi forces, tightening borders with Syria and Iran, and strengthening military perimeters. It would help, too, to recall the Iraqi Army to its barracks, weeding out the Saddam loyalists and putting others to work. Let's hope these do the trick.

David Gergen on toughing it out in Iraq:

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China's Triple Cross by Republican fund raiser
"Every double-agent operation we ran might have been compromised and a failure."
--Larry Wortzel, a retired military counterintelligence official

In April of this year a prominent Chinese-American bookstore owner, business consultant, and Republican fundraiser by the name of Katrina Leung was arrested. The FBI says that Leung was a top-drawer Chinese spy. The details resemble the trappings of a dime store spy thriller, but beneath them is one very sobering prospect: Katrina Leung and her two G-man lovers might just possibly have blown two decades of intelligence work on China sky-high.

Was Katrina Leung an agent of influence for Beijing?

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